Speed Demos Archive

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Just as I said last time, there are loads of possible shortcuts and tricks on this map. The first demo to see the light of day was a 1:20 easy run by Kay Berntsen, which he posted on func_msgboard before we even had had a chance to add the map to SDA. He used a multitude of cool tricks including a long quadded grenade jump and some fun route tweaks along the way to get that time.
Carl Tholin also managed a 1:20 easy run using a rather neutral route but with a double grenade jump off an ogre at the end, which saves a lot of time. The biggest difference between Carl and Kay though, is that Carl actually sent his demo to us while Kay didn't!
But there is a major shortcut on this map that both Kay and Carl missed. You don't need the silver key! All you have to do to get through the bars locked with the silver key is just... walk straight through them! This trick was first found by Michael Hudson, who also used it in this 1:33 nightmare run.
I used the silver door trick combined with a few other tricks to do this 1:03 easy run.
Carl gave the nightmare run a go with the neutral route but with the double grenade jump, and got 1:24...
...which he improved to 1:04 when he found out about the silver door trick.
No one has made any 100% demos yet...

And now for something completely different. When Connor Fitzgerald had stopped crying from laughter after seeing my poor aiming and strategy in the 180 nightmare 100% i made last week, he suddenly remembered that he recorded this 3:00 nightmare 100% already in October. The trout threat was enough to make him send it in. This demo shows 180 kills in 180 seconds, or an average of one killed monster per second.

Long time ago I tried to beat the easy run on darknite. I failed. But then along came Connor with a new faster route and a new shiny easy run. To see if Connor's route could be used for the nightmare run, I made this 1:24 demo, 5 seconds faster than Carl-Johan Andersson.

When Kay Berntsen makes a demo we all know it's going to be a fast ride all the way from start to end. This time he beat Martin Selinus' old runs on Assassin by two seconds each getting 0:23 and 0:23 for easy and nightmare respectively.

Have a good time this christmas! And record some demos! Everyone should have a little extra time for speedrunning during the holidays, right? :)

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Hello again!

The main reason for this update is that we are adding a new map to SDA. It's Cappuccino: The Refill by Hrimfaxi. It's a big, gorgeous map with loads of possible routes, shortcuts and tricks, so I know we'll see some sweet demos on it. Please note that there are two different versions of this map around, so be sure to download this latest incarnation of it. It should be called cappuccino_V2.bsp.

Call your demos cap_xxx and send them to US!

While I'm at it I thought it'd be a good idea to include the newest demos. We have one really sharp nightmare run and one a little less sharp nightmare 100%.

First, some new id arse-kickery from our aussie friend Connor Fitzgerald. Having found that new rocket boost on e4m6 a few days ago we all knew it was just a matter of time before a shiny new nightmare run on the level would be recorded. Now it has. Looking maybe a little less optimal than the easy run, but no less incredible, is this 0:44 nightmare run. And it's one second faster than Jozsef.

Talking about Connor, I know there are quite a few people who have always wondered what an australian speedrunner might look like. Well, there's something new for you: Connor has taken a photo of himself! Check it out in his profile.

The next demo is one that most certainly does not deserve the must download attribute. It's a tablefiller nightmare 100% on 180. I did it. I know there are faster demos around than my 5:07 but nobody has sent anything to us! Why? Because we haven't been slapping you people around enough with the trout. Consider yourselves slapped, people.

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Hello, friends.

Another legendary id demo has been fucked over by the australian speedrunning sensation. A demo that was perceived as being unbeatable, pixel perfect and a beautiful work of speedrunning art has been surpassed. The run I'm talking about is the easy run on e4m6 by the legendary speedrunner Markus Taipale. Connor Fitzgerald is one of the few people who can even begin to think about beating a run like that. Also, the same Connor Fitzgerald is one of the few people who can actually do it, at least within a resonable amount of time. The new record is 0:40 and features a new exciting quadded rocket boost which I'm sure you'll like! I know I did. Look at it in slow motion... I don't know how he avoided all that junk that seems to block his way. Must download, no excuses accepted.

It doesn't end there. Rather recently the nightmare 100% on e4m6 was royally improved by Thomas Stubgaard himself. While practising for that run, Thomas couldn't stop his noodle from devising a new route for the easy 100% as well. And who would be better suited to perform this new route other than Connor Fitzgerald? Timo's old record took a nine second beating, and with this 1:39 demo Connor once and for all proves that grabbing the rocket launcher early on is the key to fastness on e4m6.

What else is new? A few demos from Carl Tholin, a man who indeed masters the bunny. If arcane was an id map, I would have marked these following demos must download. But it isn't, so it's probably best I don't. But now it's too late anyway because I already did :-)

He started by attempting to beat the nightmare run. Quite a successful attempt as it turns out, because this 1:29 is a full 7 seconds faster than Justin's old run.
Next up he made this 2:15 nightmare 100%, 6 seconds faster than Justin. This really has got to be one of the smoothest runs of the century, and it completes Carl's quest for TO on arcane. Nice!

Coopie time. But there's only five demos, and four of them are old news if you downloaded the all demos download from the last update. You see, for reasons we needn't explore they were left out of the last update, so we include them again. It's Pif and Luc de Mestre time.

Ballshaft first. The boys found a trick which let them take their 2 player nightmare run back from Robert and Rickard. One second is how much faster they were in this 0:15 run.
Encouraged by that they fired up the map again, but this time on easy skill. And behold, after a while they had beaten the old 2 player easy run on the map by one second to 0:14. What's funny about it is that this was a record held by Peter Horvath and Attila Csernyik. Pretty good going.
A little more practice and a little smoother running resulted in this 0:13 easy run, a full 2 seconds faster than Peter and Attila.
And of course the same thing is possible on nightmare skill, which the boys proved with this 0:13 run, 3 seconds faster than Rickard and Robert.
To round things up they did a 2 player easy 100% on Evil World I, no slower than 1:13.

That's all the demos we have. Watch'em, beat'em, send'em to us. Also, don't miss our lovley christmas logo above, made by Megazoid from Quake Terminus. 'Tis the season!

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Well, I could bore you all with the reasons that this update is, once again, very late. But you don't want to hear a load of whining and self pity, do you? You want demos! And I believe that a good way to start the demos would be with three Id improvements, but what's the chances of that happening...

Freshly returned from his recent bizzarre journey of personal discovery in to what it feels like to be a member of the opposite sex, it is my pleasure to announce that Thomas Stubgaard is back online (just visit #qdq if you don't believe me) and in the record taking mood. He opens tonights demos with a Nightmare 100% marathon through Episode 3: The Netherworld. He improved his old time by forty-five seconds to 12:04, and apart from some fiend trouble while chillin' down The Vaults, some uncooperative monsters in The Tomb, some slight rocket blow-back in The Tunnels and some MASSIVE rocket blow-back in The Chambers he did the whole damned lot with the customary Stubgaard silky smoothness.

Consider The Door to Chthon: the Runs are optimum, there's no doubt about that. Ilkka's Easy 100% is about as close to perfection as the great man ever came and Peter's Nightmare 100% is... well, it's not for no reason that in recent times we've started describing demos crammed full of impossible tricks and boosts as "Horvathesque". Connor Fitzgerald has managed to fuck both of them over.

He changed one kill to make space for another quad boost in the EH which left him perilously close to death but one second faster at 0:46.
Beating Peter's NH time, can you think of a better guarantee that this demo is awesome? I can't and it is. Connor even thinks that this 0:52 is beatable by "several" seconds given some luck and a perfect run. One second, maybe, but several??? No comment. I've learnt not to doubt this man. :-)

Not happy with his previous Nightmare Run of well meant that Mathias Thore had no choice but to sythe another two seconds off the time to bring the record down to 0:45.99949.

It's been another one of those weeks for the French coop team of the de Mestre brothers. Younger brother Pif de Mestre and his brother, older brother Luc de Mestre have stormed through the custom tables like a stormy storm of stormyness and found a few more levels that nobody has yet cooped on. And then they cooped on them. As usual, this weeks demos look just that little bit slicker and more professional than last weeks. Which means, since they've now been doing this for some months, the standard in all of them is getting very high! :-)

They began with catacomb, a level that has been quiet since 1999. Lots of weapons and a handy quad meant it only took 0:40 to do all there was to do and get the hell out of there on both EASY and NIGHTMARE.
sadlark7 kept them distracted for a while.
- They improved their Nightmare Run by seven seconds to 1:01 with the aid of some very timely shambler distracting by an accomodating fiend.
- The Nightmare 100% was hard work, as Nightmare 100%s are wont to be, but between them they clung on to life long enough to get a pretty cool 2:26.
- By now they knew the ins and outs of the level well enough turn the Easy 100% into a big ol' boost-a-thon, with Pif doing most of the boosting and Luc doing the mopping up. 1:34.
Next came the strange little map that is frcastl2. Stacks of weapons, ammo, health and quaddage, a few monsters and an open exit very near the start might be lacking somewhat in balanced gameplay but it kept the chaps amused for 56 seconds, split evenly between 0:28 on both EASY and NIGHTMARE.
Another even division of labour now as Pif rides an Easy skill shambler smash all the way to the top of the tower while Luc steps into the exit. This 0:11 is just begging to be a 0:10...
dazsp2, they say, is not really suited for coop Nightmare 100%s. They made this 0:45 just to prove themselves wrong!
dazsp2b, however, is quite suited for coop Easy 100%s. This led to two demos: a fairly ropey 1:31 followed by a very nice 1:27. Quad boosts to the exit and last second kills always add a touch of class to a coop. :-)
Base monsters in a medieval environment. Open layout. Big, green watery areas. It seems like fc has got all the ingredients necessary to be... the next map. A Nightmare 100% in 1:15 all sounds well and good, but Pif did end up waiting at the exit for rather a long time. So they swapped the route around a little and dragged the time down to 1:09.
The next day they realised that they could also do the Easy 100% in 1:09. So what did they do about it? They did the Easy 100% in 1:09, that's what! It's this kind of brutal French efficiency that keeps on warming our little hearts.

And so once again, I depart. Sweet sorrow.

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There are four things that have happened in the recent past that some would say could have happened sooner.

The first, you might notice, is updating SDA at all. Well, these things happen. The delay has allowed for the usual-for-2004 bumper crop of demos (26) including the 111th ID record of the year!

For the second of these things, I'll merely observe that some people would say that been a site maintainer for well over a year and only doing one update (and that only containing one demo) was slacking. I would say that this was ignorant crap from people who don't understand what actually goes into running SDA, but hey, who am I to argue with a moron?

Thirdly, if you have among your records an ID ER, an ID EH and an ID NR as well as a fascination with beating treasured records of a certain Dane, the only logical step is an ID NH: yes, that's right ladies[1] and gentleman Connor Fitzgerald has beaten Thomas Stubgaard's Nightmare 100% of e1m8 by three seconds to get 1:13. Is this merely a brief foray into the mad, bad and exceedingly frustating world of the ID NH for Connor or the start of a new threat to Danish domination? Time alone will tell.

So, an update, me writing it and Connor recording an ID NH. What other notable event could have happened some time ago? Well, you would think that an SDA staffer that can run e2m1 in 7.98 and e1m1 in 22.99 would have a boatload of single-player records to his name and Mathias Thore has finally started to make this come true, taking no less than five records in the space of two days.

Pif de Mestre's nightmare run of jailbrk saw the smallest possible improvement: saving a second meant finishing in 1:20.
Not wanting to unfairly only pick on Pif, Mandel rather over-compensated by getting 0:47 for the NR of obiwan3, a 21 second improvement on Luc de Mestre's time.
Equaling Rickard Axelsson's Easy Run time for the Nightmare variant meant that two seconds simply had to go from that record: how many more seconds can be shaved from this 0:45?
Having realized that he could beat some of Rickard's demos, he took a second off the well Easy Run to get 0:46
And the same for the Nightmare Run, 0:47.

However, this was nearly a week ago and no more demos have appeared. Back to the grindstone, slacker!

Watching a demo from Carl Tholin is always a mixed pleasure for someone like me. The upside is that these demos, like this four second improvement to Thomas Bergendorff's Easy 100% of arcane (1:57) are always a joy to watch. The downside is that I know that I'd have to try for hours and hours or even days to record a demo this good, and Carl seems to do it without even looking as though he's trying.

Carl also recorded a very nice Nightmare 100% of maniac11 in 1:13, 28 seconds faster than Pif (and 1 second faster than his Easy 100%...).

Pif's assault on the Number of Records (including Coop) and the Number of Demos (including Coop) statistics is scarely troubled by this as the torrent of mostly brother-assisted table fillers and improvements continues to flow from the north-west of France.

First to feel the love was a map I'd never heard of, Gilt's Symbiotic Pipe Dream, on which every monster was killed and every secret penetrated on Easy skill in 0:31, ten seconds faster than Ken's single-player time.

Then they moved on to a map I even had a record on (briefly), Jesus Wants You.

Good grenade work all round meant the Easy Run only took 0:16 seconds (vs 0:21 for SP).
The Nightmare Run is much more bitchy, but fell to a slightly scrappy 0:31 (vs 0:37 for SP).
And the Easy 100% took 0:50 (vs 0:57 for SP).
The Nightmare 100% must be hell, because they didn't do that at all.

Then followed a classic de-Mestrering of the 100% records on thecrypt (the runs having been dealt with a couple of weeks back):

First a quick Easy 100% in 0:42 (vs 0:48 for SP).
Swiftly joined by a Nightmare 100% in 1:01 (vs 1:17 for SP).
Barely hours later the Easy 100% got the standard 2 second improvement: 0:40.
followed by the same to the Nightmare 100%: 0:59.

If I could be bothered, I'd program recordbot to work out just how many levels Pif & Luc have acheived T2PCO on. But I'm not, yet. Patches welcome :)

A little more patience (and Pif getting his tricks right first time) improved the previous day's Nightmare Run on jesus by six seconds to 0:25. They say "The ER2 route is possible but really hard.", which sounds like a challenge to me :-)

You could get the impression that erotique is really boring to run, because they only recorded the Easy 100% in 1:08, 11 seconds better than Bergie managed on his own.

After a few days off to rest tired running muscles, Pif's patience with the empty slots of the least run of the recent batch of added levels -- sadlark7 -- finally ran out.

Luc didn't run away fast enough to avoid the Easy Run being swiftly dispatched in 0:48 (vs 0:58 for SP).
And he was forced to continue to get 1:08 for the Nightmare Run.

At this point I can only assume Luc was finally allowed out to buy onions and frogs' legs for dinner while Pif filled the remaining single player slots:

First he sent us an Easy 100% attempt in 2:31. Unfortunately, he didn't clip the trigger in one of the secrets, so this wasn't a record.
After we'd laughed at him in #qdq a bit he retaliated with a more thorough 2:32.
Then he took on the monster-packed Nightmare 100%, finished in a mere 4:56.
To complete the job, he survived the Nightmare ... err ... Experience ("run" is perhaps not really the word) in 2:09.
And, to finally eliminate the irritation of the invalid demo mentioned above, he improved his Easy 100% by three seconds to 2:29.

Oh, and Connor: we expect your TO-taking Easy 100% of e1m8 Tuesday at the latest :-)

[1] I'm counting Stubby as a lady purely to increase accuracy here.

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Todays update continues where the last one left off: with round 2 of the Clash Of The Coop Titans. Reigning world champions and the pride of all Sweden Robert "Man Mountain" Axelsson and Rickard "Hulk" Axelsson are locked in battle with French upstarts Pif "The UnderPanter" de Mestre and Luc "Knee Trembler" de Mestre. Will the sheer weight of demos and the ever increasing confidence and skill of the de Mestres be enough to overcome one of the slickest and best loved coop duos of all time? Only time will tell.

The opening shots came from Pif and Luc as they took T2PCO of mexx6.

A SSG boost to the silver and a few small pushes gave them an Easy Run time of 1:23, which soon evolved into 1:20.
The Nightmare Run was a similar idea but lots more killing needed to reach the exit. 1:34.
Then the Easy 100% in 1:51. Not too many comments from me here as I don't really like this level. I keep getting lost. :-/
So an equally brisk comment on the Nightmare 100% which they completed in 2:03.
But that wasn't the end of their Mexxy endevours. They also did the Nightmare 100% of mexx1 in the fish-slaughtering time of 0:47.
mexx10b also provided them with some small diversion...
- Starting with an Easy Run in 1:15.
- And finishing with an Easy 100% in 2:11. Well, I did say it was a small diversion...

Last time, Robert and Rickard lost their run records on Tower Of Death to Pif and Luc. Today they take them back with a "probably optimum" 0:08 on both EASY and NIGHTMARE by stealing the quad boomstick route and doing it just that little bit faster.

Pif struck out on his own (what Luc was doing at this time I don't know and, frankly, I don't want to know...) to improve his recent Nightmare Run of nesp16 by twenty-one seconds to 1:18. An excellent demonstration of monster avoidance.

Luc came back from whatever it was he was doing (and, frankly, I STILL don't want to know what it was he was doing...) and they made an Easy 100% in the fiery pit of fire that is fire in 0:51.

Which warmed them up nicely to revenge themselves on R&R for the taking of their 180 Easy 100% record. The recapture was sweet, with a three second improvement to 1:01 and then a "frustratingly close to breaking the one minute barrier" 1:00.05.

But it was Rickard who would land the final blow in this week's battle by making a personal, frenzied, horrific attack on Luc's blind side with a 0:47 Easy Run of obiwan3, five seconds faster.

That's the end for now. I'm off on my travels again but hopefully you'll be hearing from me again very soon. In the mean time I'd like to draw your attention to this new release from well respected publishing house O'Reilly. It's called Gaming Hacks and looks to contain some interesting stuff, particularly the chapters on speedrunning which it seems were written by a couple of rather familiar names...

Stay squeeky!

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Oh yeah. Merciful Merced. There are so many new demos and so many good ones there really should be something in there for everyone to enjoy. I'm gonna cut right to the chase, because this time the chase is a damn good one. Hordes of police cars, guns, gangsters, a cow and even a ninja. Let me present 33 (or so) demos from the entire mötley crew.

It's always a pleasure when someone makes an id record. Last week the pleasures reached unseen climactic heights when we received 4 id records within just a few days. 4 demos, 4 categories, two players.

Do you remember what happened this August? SDA newcomer Joe Pecoraro, or BogoJoker, beat Thomas Stubgaard's NH on e4m6 by not only a few seconds. 12 seconds, actually. Difficult to beat? Of course. Optimal? Guess not! No NH is optimal if it doesn't belong to Thomas Stubgaard, according to some. This time Thomas used an idea from the easy and nightmare runs on the level and took a loooong bunny to grab the rocket launcher very early on. With a steady aim and an armada of bunny jumps Thomas *crushed* Joe's record by 27 seconds to 2:18. What are you gonna do about that, Joe? The mighty dane is now the Mightiest Of Them All, Fearless Ultraviolent Killing Axeman, or MOTA-FUKA™. Thomas Stubgaard - The man with the most id demos on SDA ever. Congratulations!

The remaining 3 new id records belong to one single runner, the Australian phenomenon who goes under the pseudonym Connor Fitzgerald. As an easy warm-up he killed everything and visited every secret on e3m4. And he did it very fast. And he recorded it too. These actions combined allowed him to beat his own old easy 100% record by 3 seconds to 1:06. I do have some grudges against this record though. 1 - Connor and everybody else can do the rocket jump in the elevator without pushing the button. This is impossible for me. Why oh why. 2 - Mandel slaps connor around a bit with the fmb100 progs.dat

What do I know about Australian gravitation? Nothing. Not even how different it is from 9.81 m/s². That's why I can't start this off with an anecdote. So... While the odd gravity on e1m8 can be difficult to handle sometimes, a good player can use it to his advantage. A new move to get the rockets without landing on the ledge and a modified route to the silver key gave Connor 2 seconds improvement over Martin Selinus' nightmare run, to 0:29.

Connor, Martin and the rest of us knew that it had to be possible to use Connor's new tricks for the easy run as well. It was only a matter of doing them. And indeed, the fourth id demo today is an easy run on e1m8 in 0:28. Connor did it. Of course. Well done, Connor. One second faster than the old run by Martin.

How does one cope with the loss of two precious id records? One way to do it is by still having another 20 id records in the archive. Another way is to submit a new demo to SDA. Martin Selinus is a smart boy and did both! He blew the dust from his mechanical microsoft mouse and recorded an easy marathon run through All of The Deathmatch Arenas in 1:53, 5 seconds faster than Arturo. But then, I fear that his mechanical microsoft mouse might have become dusty again, because this demo was recorded in September...

Easy runs. Don't we all love them?

Carl Tholin has an ability to surprise me with sweet sweet demos on maps I never would have noticed otherwise. This guy was making speed demos already back in 1998, and has had demos both in the id tables at SDA and in the lovable old QdQ movies. This time he ran Arcane in 1:16, 3 seconds faster than Thomas Bergendorff.
Thomas Bergendorff instantly replied by making a run on Sadlark 7 in 0:58, 12 seconds faster than Michael Hudson.
Michael Hudson instantly replied by watching me make a run on fmb100 in 0:31. I *could* call this a tablefiller but I don't want to. Just watch how much luck I have by the gold key...
Next up is a demo by a totally new player. Marino 'Serpent' Markic made an optimal run on doom2_01. A good way to start an SDA career, but unfortunatley this run was optimized to 0:08 by Ilkka Kurkela already in 1998. Keep it up and you will find a map you can make a record on.

Nightmare runs. Don't we all fear them?

Pif de Mestre is a sneaky Quaker. Last week he made a couple of demos on World 1-1 for Quake together with Luc. Later, when Luc went to bed, Pif stayed up and made a run on his own, namely this 0:23, 3 seconds faster than last time.
Luc slept late the next morning, which gave Pif just the time he needed to make this 1:39 on R_speeds Be Damned!. Huge map and difficult tricks. Nice!

100%. Don't we all tremble in fear before them?

Carl Tholin again. Another 3 seconds off of an old Bergendorff record. The easy 100% on Maniac11 is now down to 1:14.
In the last update Richard Skidmore said he would beat Pif's easy 100% on fmb100 by more than a minute. And indeed he did. He got it as low as 4:59 before he had to fly. Literally.
Pif found an empty spot in the World 1-1 for Quake table and instantly made this 1:07 nightmare 100%. It is now official. Pif is allergic to holes in the tables.
Believe it or not. Pif also found an empty spot where a nightmare 100% for obiwan3 could be inserted. And insert such a demo is just what he did. Not optimal, but the running looks pretty sharp in this 3:39.

So then, who's up for a bunch of coop demos? There's a surprise this time. Only a little more than half of the coop demos come from the Mestre stronghold. And the other demos? That's right, Robert and Rickard Axelsson have woken up from hibernation.

Robert and Rickard beat Pif et Luc's precious long way nighmare run on e1m6 by one second to 0:26.
Pif and Luc replied by doing the nightmare run on Tower Of Death in 0:09, one second faster than Robert och Rickard.
While Pif and Luc were at it, they also did an easy run in 0:09.
Robert and Rickard replied by doing a nightmare run on Fire in 0:29, 4 seconds faster than Pif et Luc. Nice boost and nice dying.
Pif and Luc tried a nightmare run on obiwan3 and got 0:29...
...but Robert and Rickard tried the same and got 0:26, 3 seconds faster than Pif et Luc.
Robert and Rickard also tried the easy run and got 0:26 for that, 3 seconds faster than the old demo by Pif et Luc.
Robert and Rickard also did a 0:12 second nightmare run on Shoot, 3 seconds faster than the old demo by Pif et Luc.
Robert and Rickard continued on Shoot and got 0:11 for the easy run. Well... Not only did they name their demos sht_012... Pif et Luc got 0:11 already in August. If either coop team gets 0:10 it'll go in the tables. This demo won't.

I'm gonna need a little breather right here.

Robert and Rickard found Ballshaft and made a nightmare run in 0:16, one second faster than Pif et Luc.
Robert and Rickard went on to kill a few monsters. 180 monsters to be precise. Nightmare 100% in 5:13. The boys use a funny strategy in here if I may say so. They just run in circles around the monsters without shooting anything at all, making the monsters kill eachother. Is that really the best strategy? Pif? Luc? What do you say?
Robert and Rickard also got 1:04 for the easy 100% on 180. That's 1 second faster than the old demo by Pif et Luc.

I'm gonna need a little breather right here as well.

Doing what Morfans tells you is often a good idea. Pif and Luc tried a little harder with the nightmare 100% on hip3m3 and got 2:15...
...and shortly after that 2:10, 12 seconds faster than the week before.
Pif and Luc followed up their 0:38 second easy run on The Crypt from last week with a 0:40 nightmare run.
Pif and Luc, czg03. The boys did a 0:52 second nightmare run. Messy level, where you have to kill stuff before you can exit.
I've always liked coagula maps, and so have Pif and Luc apparently. This time they did an easy 100% on the map that started it all, Coagula. Oh, and it's 1:07.
The dark, dark map that is Mexx1 got an easy 100% done by Pif and Luc, in 0:40.
The last demo of this update is another easy 100% by Pif and Luc, on Mexx2. Their time is 0:22 and it even includes an intermission kill. Sweet.

There you go, people. Suck it down with a straw, digest it for a while and then go make more demos. PROMISE!

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Well, I'm back from my travels and it looks like I've got myself a new job. But more of that another time. For now I'll just get on with business as usual.

Clan de Mestre have run wild all over Obiwan3 in the last week. In fact, if they were to form a vocal group in the Motown style (possibly dressed as Jedi) then Luc, Pif and Andre could call themselves Le Obiwan 3. Or something. Why oh why do I rattle on like this when I could be telling you about the demos? [1]

Luc de Mestre hadn't had enough of the Easy Run and improved his record by four seconds to 0:54, and then by another two to 0:52. Looking very smooth now, I think it'll need a route change or a bunny-fiend to take this further...
Luc also had a stab at the Nightmare Run. The route's pretty much the same but he had to keep stopping to kill stuff that was blocking his progress. This gave him a 1:08.
The first person to send in a 100% was Luc's brother, Pif de Mestre. He used the enforcer boost from the runs to skip having to press most of the buttons which allowed him to follow a "enter a room, kill, leave" pattern for most of the map. He got a very good 2:09 this way.
Then came the coop explosion. They teamed up to make...
- The Easy Run in 0:31 and then a much improved 0:28.
- The Nightmare Run in 0:31, very good monster dodging. :-)
- And the Easy 100% in 1:11.
Along came Andre de Mestre and between them they made short work of the Runs, getting 0:23 for the Easy Run and 0:24 on Nightmare. As usual, Andre carried the other two... ;-)

The demos on maniac11 were already looking good, but someone seems to have torn the map's face off in violent splendor.

The runs had both been reduced to a "nine might be possible but this ten will be hard to beat" 0:10. For most of us that means we'll wait and see if someone else can do it, for Connor Fitzgerald it's a challenge! It didn't take him that long to get 0:09 on both EASY and NIGHTMARE. Optimum?
Two chaps tried the Easy 100%...
- Pif cleaned house in 1:40...
- ...but Thomas Bergendorff made a rollocking, bollocking 1:17 that nearly made me scream in shuddering ecstasy.
Pif had first stab at the Nightmare 100% and although it didn't make me scream at all is still a good, solid table filler. 1:41.
A new map makes for an almost irresistable temptation for Pif and Luc in their quest to have a record on every single map ever EVER. They went to work on the 100%s and got 0:50 on both EASY and NIGHTMARE. WHEEEEEEE!

We've also been blessed with the first demos on fmb100 and sadlark7. Two maps, three runners, three runs.

lodis was the first to attempt a fmb100 run. Using the secret teleport and a suprisingly fast key grab he exited on Nightmare in just 0:32.
Pif made a fmb100 Easy 100% in 6:08 not because he'd come up with a particularly good route but just to prove that he'd found all the secrets. Think of this as more a "fast walkthrough" than a speed run and you can't go far wrong. I've already thrashed it by over a minute with a cool route but you'll have to wait for next update to see it.
sadlark7 is a pretty cool map but, just like the fellah that did the Easy Run on it, it's very long and hard. Michael Hudson went rocket crazy and blasted through in a time of 1:10. He even made writing this update a little easier by extending the "erect penis" metaphor I used earlier and making me gasp when he started going up the wrong passage! OOH-EER!

Our final single player demo of the update comes courtesy of Pif, who seemed to think that the empty Nightmare 100% slot on jailbrk made the level look somewhat ugly and gittish. Ever willing to help beautify The Archive he made all the kills in 2:27 and exited with a smile on his face.

No demo round-up would be complete without a few more Pif and Luc coops. Incidentally, their insane coop rampage has, in just one year, put them at positions #7 and #8 in the Most Current Records table!

They did the Easy Run of the crypt in 0:38, which is only two seconds quicker than Kay's single player time. That doesn't mean that this run is bad, it's just not a very coop friendly level and Kay's run was AWESOME.
Next came the Nightmare 100% of hip3m3 and an improvement of just two seconds over Nolan's single player time at 2:22. Although Nolan's demo is excellent and the map suicidally hard on Nightmare I do feel the chaps could have tried a little harder. :-)
Finally a Nightmare 100% on dnspq1. This is a much better coop map and clocks in at 0:34, twenty eight seconds faster than Ken's single player time.

To finish off I'd like to expand somewhat on Bergies comment's on Mandel and Midas Do Quake Quickly. If you haven't seen it yet you can still get it from here. It's a "hobby run" (thanks to mwh for that great expression) of the entire game on Easy Skill after the fashion of a QdQ run. They decided to do the whole thing in (roughly) a month rather than spending weeks and weeks on each demo and so the result is a couple of seconds slower than they could have achieved, but at 11:44 it is FUCKING AWESOME. Even the little mistakes, like the rocket jump on e2m6, help to add to the charm of this production. In fact there's just one thing I'd like to say: having seen the extent of the skills of these two (I mean, we all knew they were both good, but I didn't realise tht they'd got THIS good) I'm firmly expecting them to start cutting a swathe through the mission pack and custom level runs starting any day now... ;-)

I've been Morfans. You've been a great audience. Se you next time, Good night.

[1] ANSWER: Because nobody can stop me!!! :-)